Rochford and Southend East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rochford and Southend East County constituency

Rochford and Southend East shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	James Duddridge
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Rochford and Southend East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

At the 2005 election, the decline in the incumbent Member of Parliament's share of the vote here was greater than in any other constituency where a Conservative sought re-election. This can be attributed to the rise in the Liberal Democrat vote, in what was that party's best electoral performance in recent time.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

1997 – 2005: Sir Teddy Taylor, Conservative
2005 – "present": James Duddridge, Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Rochford and Southend East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Duddridge	17,874	45.3	-8.3
	Labour	Fred Grindrod	12,384	31.4	-3.4
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Longley	5,967	15.1	+7.7
	UK Independence	John Croft	1,913	4.8	+4.8
	Green	Andrew Vaughan	1,328	3.4	+0.8
Majority			5,490	13.9
Turnout			39,466	55.4	+2.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.4

General Election 2001: Rochford and Southend East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Teddy Taylor	20,058	53.6	+4.8
	Labour	Chris Dandridge	13,024	34.8	-4.9
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Newton	2,780	7.4	-2.0
	Green	Adrian Hedges	990	2.6	N/A
	Liberal	Brian Lynch	600	1.6	-0.6
Majority			7,034	18.8
Turnout			37,452	52.7	-10.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Rochford and Southend East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Teddy Taylor	22683	48.7
	Labour	Nigel Smith	18458	39.7
	Liberal Democrat	Paula Smith	4387	9.4
	Green				N/A
	Liberal	Brian Lynch	1007	2.2
Majority			4225	9.1
Turnout			46535	63.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

Constituencies in the East of England
Conservative	Billericay \| Braintree \| Brentwood and Ongar \| Broxbourne \| Bury St Edmunds \| Castle Point \| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich \| Epping Forest \| Harwich \| Hemel Hempstead \| Hertford and Stortford \| Hertsmere \| Hitchin and Harpenden \| Huntingdon \| Maldon and East Chelmsford \| Mid Bedfordshire \| Mid Norfolk \| North Essex \| North East Bedfordshire \| North East Cambridgeshire \| North East Hertfordshire \| North West Cambridgeshire \| North West Norfolk \| Peterborough \| Rayleigh \| Rochford and Southend East \| Saffron Walden \| Southend West \| South Cambridgeshire \| South East Cambridgeshire \| South Norfolk \| South Suffolk \| South West Bedfordshire \| South West Hertfordshire \| South West Norfolk \| St Albans \| Suffolk Coastal \| Welwyn Hatfield \| West Chelmsford \| West Suffolk
Labour	Basildon \| Bedford \| Great Yarmouth \| Harlow \| Ipswich \| Luton North \| Luton South \| Norwich North \| Norwich South \| Stevenage \| Thurrock \| Watford \| Waveney
Liberal Democrat	Cambridge \| Colchester \| North Norfolk
East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) \| UKIP (2) \| Labour (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)

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